Set Restarts + Are Ruining the Game

I'm sure not everyone will agree but in my personal opinion Set Restarts in particular are destroying the game and allowing the referee to basically control the outcome of games. Combine the Set Restarts with diabolical refereeing and bunker calls then the whole fairness of Rugby League has long gone. Seriously today's game was disgraceful refereeing ( yes the Eels made some poor mistakes and the younger players are still learning) but a 10-1 penalty count and not 1 repeat set 🤣. This seems to be a continual report on 85% of refereeing of the Eels games. In my opinion the Eels hierarchy need to speak up about the appalling referee and bunker calls. It's not only the Eels coping it but it seems the lower placed teams get the raw end of the stick. Ricky Stuart isn't afraid of speaking up when things go against his team with refs. About time the Eels did the same or they'll continue to be the NRL doormat team

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    • V'Landys bought to you by the super-clean not-corruption-infested-at-all "sport" of horse racing....The Land Where Gambling is King and "connections" are everything

      Vlandys is  well comfortable turning our sport into an entertainment product. They invited a fox into the NRL henhouse

      He thinks we will watch no matter what. Is he right? 

  • It's rigged, pure and simple. Klein believes that the Raiders discipline was pretty much perfect the whole game and that they were never off side and were always square at marker, etc. It just doesn't happen.

    Flanagan had the balls to speak up on some extremely dodgy calls that got the dogs over the line tonight. Parra has to speak up too or this will keep happening 

     

    • It got to the point raiders knew he wasn't going to call anything and just lay in the ruck to slow it down. Moses love him or hate him will get in the refs face and force the issue. We are missing that 

      • True Moses at least is willing to challenge these decisions. 

      • That is what we are lacking in our forward pack mainly, a prick. We need a JWH or NAS someone who will get under the skin of the opposition but also intimidate. We have nice guys, with Dylan Walker only one to question things.

    • At least Flanagan isn't afraid to speak up.

  • Yep agreed. There is clearly an agenda with the NRL and which teams they want to be successful. It stinks really, and it's issues like this that are killing our game. It's time they were called out about this, but the media plays up to the same tune.

  • I've mentioned this a few times over the last few weeks, but the only thing thst the 6 against does, is they give the refs an opportunity to set the momentum for the opposition team and wrest momentum away from an attacking team.

    The refs shouldn't be allowed to influence the results but it seems they have the biggest bearing on results and this should not be the case. No other sport does the ref have such a large say on the result. Not cricket, not tennis, not AFL and not soccer.

    Its kind of a huge problem. The game needs to address the grey areas so that the refs influence can be limited IMO.

    • The 6 again is literally there for the referees to influence the result. It's the single biggest blight on the game , and is corrupted. You don't even get the luxury of a replay or ability to challenge. 

      I wish I had the tools and smarts to break down a game piece by piece highlighting every 6 again with still shots . Imagine the controversy if one of the games analyst's with a platform ran an agenda against the corruption of officials and broke down the games of the round with still of every 6 again and momentum swings they've been able to influence.  

       

      • I have had issues with the 6 agains as well. Any thoughts about a better way to handle the infringements around the circumstances to address the issue around slowing the play the ball and offside issues?

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